Boxing

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The fights are adjudicated by five judges.

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Some of the greatest boxers of all time have Olympic gold medals to their names — Floyd Patterson (1952), Muhammad Ali (known as Cassius Clay in 1960), Joe Frazier (1964), George Foreman (1968), Oscar De La Hoya (1992) and Wladimir Klitschko (1996) — most of which came when they were just starting to make a name for themselves as pugilists.

Women's boxing was introduced ahead of the 2012 London Games and there are a few differences from the men's competition.

Men no longer wear headgear, while the women have to do so, and men's bouts consist of three three-minute rounds, with women's fights contested over four two-minute rounds.

Women fight in three divisions flyweight, lightweight and middleweight.

Unlike professional boxing, the fights are adjudicated by five judges (though only three scores are taken into account if the fight does not end by knockout), with fighters receiving 10 points for winning a round and between six and nine in a losing round.

Boxers are scored on successfully landed blows, domination, competitiveness, technique, tactics and adherence to the rules.

Australia has won two silver medals (middleweight Reginald 'Snowy' Baker in 1908 and light welterweight Grahame Cheney in 1988), and three bronze (bantamweight Oliver Taylor in 1960, welterweight Kevin Hogarth in 1956 and light heavyweight Anthony Madigan in 1960).

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Shelley Watts has become the first Australian boxer to qualify for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by winning her semi-final at the Asian and Oceania qualifiers in Qian'an, China.